Camila Alves McConaughey, wife of actor Matthew McConaughey, has revealed that she was a passenger on the Lufthansa flight that experienced severe turbulence on Wednesday night.
Lufthansa Flight 469 from Austin, Texas to Frankfurt, Germany was diverted to Washington Dulles International Airport after severe turbulence injured several passengers. The Federal Aviation Administration said seven passengers were hospitalized.
On Thursday, Camila Alves McConaughey shared a video of food and other items strewn across the aisle of a plane, saying she was on the plane that “fell almost 4,000 feet.”
“Everything was flying everywhere,” he said. “To respect the privacy of those around me, that’s all I’m showing, but the plane was a HAS and the turbulence keeps coming.”
He noted that it was the Lufthansa flight “see on the news today!!!! Yes, that one.”
According to the Washington Post, Matthew McConaughey was also among the 172 passengers and 12 crew members of the Airbus A330, which landed at Dulles around 9:10 p.m.
The turbulence occurred while the plane was at an altitude of 37,000 feet over Tennessee, the FAA told CNN.
In a statement, Lufthansa said the flight encountered severe turbulence about 90 minutes after takeoff and made an unscheduled landing as a precaution.
A passenger, Samantha Pinto, told the Post she saw a baby fly out of a crib and the baby’s mother grab the baby in the air, as well as passengers praying, crying and preparing.
“I seriously thought we were going to die,” she told the Post.
